Quotes By Frank Sinatra

Fresh air makes me throw up. I can't handle it. I'd rather be around three Denobili cigars blowing in my face all night.

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.

You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad - if you're indifferent, Endsville.

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

Card players have a saying: "It's all right to play if you keep your eyes on the deck" - which is another way of saving, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

For nobody else, gave me thrill-with all your faults, I love you still. It had to be you, wonderful you, it had to be you.

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.

The cigarettes you light one after another won't help you forget her.

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.

I believe that God knows what each of us wants and needs. It's not necessary for us to make it to church on Sunday to reach Him. You can find Him anyplace.

What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.

A friend to me has no race, no class and belongs to no minority. My friendships were formed out of affection, mutual respect and a feeling of having something strong in common. These are eternal values that cannot be racially classified. This is the way I look at race.

People who make a living off other people's fortunes or misfortunes are parasites.

I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps.

Those of us who roll with the punches, who grin, who dare to wear foolish clown faces, who defy the system-well, we do it, and bully for us.

If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors.

I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.

Las Vegas is the only place I know where money really talks - it says, Goodbye.

There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world - to an individual or to a nation.